Socialized Medicine is Great? Prove it!

This video from NotSoSure.org is a great illustration of the folly of government health care.

The opponent of government health care here asks the proponent for proof that it will work.  That’s a fair enough request for spending $1 trillion to $4 trillion or more, and surrendering our freedoms and property on the alter of such an experiment.

Unfortunately, all the socialist can offer is “the experts tell us it will work.”  You know, the same kind  of experts that recommended the bankrupt Social Security ponzi scheme, the bankrupt Medicare ponzi scheme, the Massachusetts socialized health care scheme, the government health care scheme in Great Britian, the government health care scheme in Canada, the health care scheme in Sweden…well, I think you get the picture.

But the socialist doesn’t really get it until it’s his life on the line.  He doesn’t appreciate the “gravity” of the undertaking until he’s hanging over the edge of a cliff, held only by a “bargain” rope.  Then “fear, fear, fear” is all he gets from the socialist. Suddenly the socialist wants assurances that something will work.

I only have one real disagreement with this analogy. It would be more accurate to clarify that the “bargain” rope in question has failed every time it’s been tried.

Because everywhere socialized medicine is tried, around the world or in the United States, you have massive cost increases, quality plummets, waiting periods drastically increase, and access to health care takes a nosedive.

Think about it, you socialists: is putting our freedom, our prosperity, our property, our economy, and our very lives on the line really worth getting someone else to meet our own responsibilities–especially when this idea is a failure everywhere it’s tried?

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